Ken and Pat Sharpe migrated to Tasmania from England in 1971 to be with their daughter whose husband worked for Schweppes. Ken had also been declared redundant as an auditor in the UK. They had lived in Old Kentish Barn, but had also lived for thirty years in Calcutta, India. ;;At the outbreak of the Second World War Ken was recruited into the Indian Army as a Major. In 1943 he was in Cairo on compassionate leave when he was commissioned for two thousand pound to take 2,000 German prisoners to Canada. The boat went via Rio de Janiero, and spent three weeks in New York at the La Rochelle camp outside New York. Ken was booked into the Plaza Hotel and was able to get into allthe New York nightclubs like the 'Stork' and the 'Al Morocco' through his contacts with Joe Byrne, the Vice-Chairman of the New York Port Authority. He went back to India after the war, where he described the British Raj as being one of 'pampered security' but 'quite good fun' despite the 'tricky' climate.;;;;In May 1940 , before the attack on Pearl Harbour, Ken gave a talk to a gathering at the New York Port Authority, who asked when he thought the war would end. He said he didn't know, but thought it would last another two years.;;;;Pat was the daughter of a coffee planter and educated in the UK at St Winifred's, Eastbourne. Her English step-father became a minister of religion after being a lay reader in the church. They moved to Bangalore in the south of Indiia.. Ken and Pat were married in India in 1943. Ken was aged 80 when Pat died in 1991. ;;;;Pat Sharpe was the first person in Tasmania (and probably Australia) to produce an 'Eating Out' guide. She specialized in writing about food and travel and regularly travelled for three months of the year. ;;;;Pat chose where to travel. Some of the tours were 'Women's Weekly' tours and some were on their own. Many of her publications on accomodation and dining in Hobart and Tasmania published between 1975 - 1979 are held in the Tasmaniana Collection of the State Library of Tasmania.